I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

It just blows my mind.
I got a bottle of Cool water as gift just today and put some on just to see if it really smells like GIT as people say.
Within 3 minutes, I started getting nauseated and wanted to throw up. I cant believe people think this garbage smells like the heavenly Green irish Tweed. This thing is worse than Yatagan.

Re: I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

CW has an interesting but unpleasant note clash to me (Lancaster version). It also has a candy-like quality (quite sweet), unlike GIT, but in general I don't know how violet leaf and iris get confused with neroli, rosemary, etc., even without that quality! Now the Coty CW is more blended and less crisp, so I can understand some saying the drydown of that one is not too far from GIT, though to me it is too muddled, unlike GIT, at that point (GIT is muskier too).

Re: I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

This territory has been covered many times before but the superior smelling original vintage Cool Water smells quite similar to Green Irish Tweed, IMO. That said, the current Cool Water is far from the "garbage" you describe it to be. Each to their own.

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Dude, you must have gotten a bad batch b/c despite the Creed worshipers denials, CW and GIT are very similar. TRUE the vintage CW was more similar to GIT, but Almost every time I wear GIT, someone comes up to me and says "Oh, I LOVE Cool Water" and I have to tell them it isn't. Your dramatic "Vomiting" reaction sounds psychosomatic.

Re: I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

Originally Posted by Diogenes65

Dude, you must have gotten a bad batch b/c despite the Creed worshipers denials, CW and GIT are very similar. TRUE the vintage CW was more similar to GIT, but Almost every time I wear GIT, someone comes up to me and says "Oh, I LOVE Cool Water" and I have to tell them it isn't. Your dramatic "Vomiting" reaction sounds psychosomatic.

Re: I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

Originally Posted by Attila

It just blows my mind.
I got a bottle of Cool water as gift just today and put some on just to see if it really smells like GIT as people say.
Within 3 minutes, I started getting nauseated and wanted to throw up. I cant believe people think this garbage smells like the heavenly Green irish Tweed. This thing is worse than Yatagan.

You are in the minority. I love them both. Always preferred CW until very recently. Both = Classics

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Re: I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

Originally Posted by Attila

It just blows my mind.
I got a bottle of Cool water as gift just today and put some on just to see if it really smells like GIT as people say.
Within 3 minutes, I started getting nauseated and wanted to throw up. I cant believe people think this garbage smells like the heavenly Green irish Tweed. This thing is worse than Yatagan.

I have to agree. I am not really a fan of GIT, but I do appreciate it is very good at what it does. Cool Water though to me is absolute piss, and is one of the few scents that I really will not tolerate. (I have tried 3 or 4 times thinking it must have been a bad day, but no, same every go)
I should maybe add that I have never tried vintage formulation though.

Re: I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

I agree Attila. I still detest Cool Water after multiple wearings spaced at long intervals. The comparison of CW to GIT deterred me from trying GIT for the longest time until I finally included a sample of GIT in my last order. Upon trying the GIT I was amazed at how different they really are. I sense only a vague,slight similarity. I now love GIT despite my strong dislike of CW.

Re: I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

Originally Posted by noirdrakkar

Cool Water's similarities are in drydown. They both have some key similarities and key differences.

I prefer Green Irish Tweed, but I also like Cool Water a lot.

I find them very similar in the heart, but to me the opening and especially the dry down is where GIT earns it's money. I do like both and they both serve different purposes, but in the end they accomplish the same thing which is they both smell great.

Re: I cant believe people think Cool Water smells like Green Irish Tweed

Originally Posted by Andrè Moreau

By the way: Cool Water is a Monument to Calone (a molecule discoverd in the Sixties by Pfizer, very similar to sea breeze)....

Cool Water has no more calone in it than, say, Grey Flannel, a very similar fragrance. It is not an aquatic. I think possibly the name and the color of the bottle are deceiving people into thinking it is one.